Victor Hugo Quotes about Desire

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

Victor Hugo

Suicide, Wisdom, Desire

Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.13478, Delphi Classics

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Victor Hugo

Desire, Shameful

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

Victor Hugo

Rocks, Agony, Desire

Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (St. Denis)”, p.112, Wildside Press LLC

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Victor Hugo

Desire, Lasts, Necks

Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics